US Patent Issued to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 24 for "Filter with low leakage power-down switches" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,729, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Filter with low leakage power-down switches" was invented by Peter Unterkircher (Engerwitzdorf, Austria) and Ralf-Rainer Schledz (Raab, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes: a low-pass filter that includes a resistor coupled between a first node and a second node, and a capacitor coupled between the second node and a reference node. The circuit further includes: a first transistor, where a drain terminal of the first transistor is coupled to the second node, and a source terminal of the first transistor is coupled to the first...